Filming has started on JK Rowling prequel to the Harry Potter movies, Fantastic Beasts and Where to find Them.

Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Jupiter Rising) stars as Newt Scamander, the wizarding world’s preeminent magi zoologist with Harry Potter director David Yates in charge. David helmed the last four Harry Potter feature films

The production started today, August 17, at Warner Bros Studios, Leavesden, the same studios that the Harry Potter films where made and therefore the same place as you may have visited if you went on the studio tour after production of the Harry Potter films completed.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – JK Rowling, author of the widely successful Harry Potter book series, visits The Wizarding World of Harry Potter escorted by Mark Woodbury, President, Universal Creative.

With the Harry Potter films JK Rowling wrote the books and let others write the film’s screenplays. With this she has written the script itself.

The story was inspired by her character Newt Scamander’s Hogwarts textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in the Harry Potter stories. In this Eddie’s character stops in New York following his travels to find and document magical creatures.